NeuroFeedback, NeurOptimal and Electroencephalography

[Persej]

If it's due only to the lighting and LH stimuli, wouldn't the resulting effect then be the opposite, i.e. being more awake and mentally active and not so much and quickly restful and sleepy?

Well, I do not feel sleepy during the reading. But perhaps being more mentally active is a key to the process because it helps me to better pay attention to the book? I do not feel much different when I'm reading the book, it is only after I go to sleep and wake up that I realize that something was different. Usually it takes at least several days of long reading for me to notice a positive effect on my sleep, but with this position it's much quicker with much fewer pages being read. But it doesn't make me more quickly sleepy when I am reading the book.

 

[Persej]

On the other hand, my experience might not be connected to the light angle since the paper is reflecting the light in quite diffused way. What could be different is the light color. The paper of the book has a slight yellowish tint. And the color of the lamp light is warm white (2700K). So when you put those two things together, you get some kind of amber color on the paper. Perhaps that is the reason behind the effect that I feel on my brain? I do not have any dyslexia like problems, but perhaps this yellowish light can also affect the brain in other ways?

 

[nicklebleu]

Do you maybe remember the frequency of the sessions at that time, daily

With NO you cannot overtrain (as opposed to the linear neurofeedback). Optimally you should start with a session every day until ‘saturation’ occurs (usually 20-30 sessions, or until the beneficial effects plateau), then you can wind it back to ‘mainenance’, which is individual and might be a few times per week or month. As Laura mentioned, your brain will tell you when it ‘needs’ another session.

 

[Persej]

I was listening about how people are using the color in their therapy, and one lady says that she is using color filters in vision therapy because it makes faster and longer changes in rewiring the brain. She also says that she is using only the incandescent bulbs and not the LED or fluorescent. She didn't explain why, but I found this video that talks a little more about the difference between incandescent and LED bulbs in human perception of light.

It reminds me of experiments with randomized flicker, where a randomized flicker was more efficient for brain changes than fixed flicker. So perhaps a wide spectrum of single color light is also more efficient than a narrow spectrum.

 

[Persej]

There seem to be several manufacturers of full spectrum lights on the market. I will put some links so you can browse through their graphs and explanations:

Everything You Need to Know About Full Spectrum Lighting | Waveform Lighting

Full spectrum lighting is a popular term for a special kind of lighting - but what exactly do you get from it?

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Full Spectrum LED Lighting | Waveform Lighting

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It's something that I haven't thought about before, but I always felt that something is wrong with artificial light, other than now famous flickering.

And here is a video that is all over the place, but part of it talks about this topic. One part that is particularly interesting to me is where he talks about a restaurant with black light UV light used for decorative purposes. He asked the manager whether the men who work there had any health issues, and the manager told him that the men who work there were actually unusually healthy, coming to the job regularly, even through the flue epidemics. Perhaps such light could be useful for health purposes, such as when we are sick with the flu?